Standard for carriage-tops



(No Model.) T.. W. PORTER.

STANDARD FOR CARRIAGE TOPS.

No. 285,070. Patented Sept; 18,1883.

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THOMAS W. PORTER, OF CHELSEA, MASSACHUSETTS.

STANDARD FOR CARRIAGE-TOPS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 285,070, dated September 18, 1883.

Application filed Februaryl'i, 1853. (No model.)

.To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, THOMAS W. PORTER, of Chelsea, in the county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Standards 'for Slat- Irons of Oarriages,'which invention is fully set forth in the following specification, refer ence being had to the accompanying draw- 1ngs.

The object of my invention is to render more convenient, effective, and durable the metallic standard which in some classes of carriages is secured to the top of the seat arm-piece, at its front end, and in which standards two or more of the slatirons that serve as the pivotal supports of the bows of the head or top are pivoted; and my invention consists in forming said standards with a longitudinalrib, which is so arranged that without increase in the weight of the standard its strength is largely increased, while such rib also furnishes a means for effectually securing the side wood in place,

. as will be hereinafter fully described,and specifically defined in the appended claims.

In said drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective View of my improved standard as viewed from the left hand thereof. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of said standard, taken as viewed from the right hand thereof. Fig. 3 is a right-hand side elevation of a carriage body and seat having my invention thereto applied, and with the wood thereto secured. Fig. 4. is an enlarged section taken through the eye and slat-irons, as

on line A A, Fig. 1. Fig.6 is an enlarged of screw-holes, as shown, those in said. base 5 being for the purpose of securing the support to arm f of seat in the usual manner. Those in angle 0 are for the purpose of securing the front wood, 72, in position, as shown in Fig. 5, while the holes in rib e are for the purpose of securing the front end of arm wood i in position. Said wood h is so employed as a means for securing, by. tacks driven therein, the front trimming, of leather or lace, of the seat, and wood 7: is employed both as a means of securing, by tacks driven therein, the side canvas and lining of the seat, but also as a form by which to shape and also support the side cushions, which extend from the bottom of the side of seat 9 to the top of wood 72. Heretofore wood z has been at its front end secured to wood h, which was an insufficient holding, for various reasons; but by means of rib c, said wood 1' can be most effectually secured in place, and serves in part to secure wood h in. place. Two or more slat-irons, k, are pivotally supported on the screw in eye (1, and other slat-irons,l, are pivoted to irons k, as shown. Said rib 6, being wide and thin in its cross-section, adds greatly to the strength of the standard at the intersection of base I) and angle 0, and hence more than the weight of said rib may be taken from the other parts and yet leave the standard of greater strength than if said rib were not employed.

I claim as my invention A slat-iron standard formed with base I), rising angle a, slotted or divided eye (1, to re ceive and pivotally support slat-iron lo, and rib 0, formed to extend along both bed I; and

angle 0, tostrengthen the same, and to receive and support in position the side wood, 1', substantially as specified.

THOMAS \V. PORTER.

Vitnesses:

EUGENE HUMIHREY, FRED V. WOOSTER. 

